Unable to import _winreg in Python 2.7.9 virtual environment

Question

I\'m running an app engine application in a virtual environment on windows 7 64bit, python 2.7.9 x64.

Here\'s the stacktrace:

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Answer 1

Module _winreg, as the docs say, exists to "expose the Windows registry API to Python".

App Engine does not supply a "Windows registry API" (nor any other Windows-specific API). Therefore, its sandbox blocks attempts to import the module -- note, at the end of your stack trace, that the exception is deliberately raised in module sandbox.py of the App Engine SDK.

Python's "virtual env" plays no part here -- it's all about App Engine.

Please clarify what task you're trying to accomplish with _winreg once your GAE app is deployed -- assume it's deployed to Linux servers (although the GAE runtime doesn't supply Linux-specific APIs either:-), so there is no Windows Registry API anywhere in the neighborhood...